All this sounds wonderful, but in the meantime the most influential commiters are trying to postpone again the bump of minimum PHP version. Just like 2 years ago it is said that too much sites are using older PHP versions, “we can’t live them behind”, “we need to convince hosting companies to upgrade older WP websites” etc. – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57345 So the lazy minority and hosting companies are to determine largest open-source project future. Currently number of sites running on PHP